Lina Appelgren

Lina Appelgren has a wealth of experience in marketing and communication roles. Lina began their career in 2005 as a PR & Marketing Project Manager for HUGO BOSS in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the Baltics, where they were responsible for retail marketing and communication for directly owned stores, and supported franchisees and multi-brand stores. In 2010, they moved to Gant AB as a Global Marketing & PR Project Manager, managing communication strategy, content production, budget and performance tracking for PR-driving collections and campaign initiatives. After that, they joined ITEM Design Studio in 2012 as Agency Director, where they were the main contact for the agency's key accounts and responsible for overall daily work and resource planning of the agency's 6 creatives. In 2017, Lina took on a Team Leader Marketing & Communication role at ARKET, where they were responsible for communication plans and activity calendars, briefing the in-house creative production team, making sure content for all activities was produced, and securing that all channels' needs were met. In 2019, they became Co-Founder & CEO at AEF. In 2020, Lina moved to CDLP as a Marketing Manager, and in 2022 they took on the role of Marketing Director at Nordiska Galleriet.

Lina Appelgren attended Berghs School of Communication from 2008 to 2010, where they studied Project Management.